Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Happy farmers and googly-mad writers

The blessed 60 day extension to the Madrona Farm fundraising campaign has yielded some truly gratifying results. Written up in Guy Dauncey's EcoNews, it caught the attention of a right thinking reader, Mel McDonald, who came up with the $200,000 that was needed for a matching donation by Ed Johnston, which reduced the amount needed to an entirely manageable sounding $287,000 - by March 31st. Still a lot of money to come up with, but "a lot" is certainly less than "a staggering amount". And it's a pittance compared with the amount that's been raised - $1,413,000 so far.